Forrester, Kim Win on Day 2 at Ivy Championships

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The Bulldogs fell to third
on the second day of swimming, but managed to win three events and
stay within reach. The 200-yard medley relay team won,
freshman Alex Forrester won the 100-yard butterfly and senior Susan
Kim won the 100-yard breaststroke. Princeton still sits in
first with 982 points. Harvard is in second at 944, with Yale
just behind them in third with 916 points.

"This was another fantastic day for us," said Robert J.H.
Kiphuth Director of Swimming Frank Keefe. "This is the best I
have seen any Yale team swim in my 32 years. It is a great
credit to what they have done work wise, and if you look at it, we
are still very young. Every one of our swimmers came back to
score in the night session."

Morning
Preliminaries

The Bulldogs opened the morning with the 400-yard IM, an event
not usually swum during dual meets. Junior Kristin Darwin was
the only Yale swimmer to get into the A final. She finished
fifth in the preliminaries with a time of 4:26.44. Penn
dominated the A final getting three swimmers through, while Harvard
and Princeton each got two. Yale was unable to put anyone
into the B final, but freshman Margaret Brown did earn a spot in
the C final with a time of 4:34.94.

Forrester did exactly what she needed to in the morning.
Forrester swam the fastest time in the 100-yard butterfly, by over
two seconds. With her preliminary time of 52.58, she broke
the meet record, the pool record, and her own Ivy League record,
set earlier this year. She also inched ever closer to the
elusive NCAA A cut time of 52.02. Joining Forrester in the A
final will be two other Yale swimmers, sophomore Hayes Hyde and
freshman Monica Tung. Hyde's time was 55.87 and Tung's was
56.33. Senior Andrea Clifford also advanced to the B final
with a time of 57.07.

Kim opened her day with a big win in the 100-yard
breaststroke. Like Forrester, she too rewrote the record
books. She took first in the prelims with a time of 1:01.26
that broke her own meet record and the Ivy record set earlier this
year by Courtney Kilkuts of Princeton. Kim finished 1.58
seconds ahead of Katie Meili from Columbia. Sophomore Athena
Liao also made it through to the A final with her time of 1:03.98.

Yale had three girls in the top ten of the 100-yard backstroke
and two in the A final. Freshman Molly Albrecht and Sophomore
Emily Dominski finished in a tie for sixth with their times of
56.09. Chiara Spinazzola of Cornell broke the Ivy record in
the prelims with a time of 54.53. Yale's other top ten
finisher, freshman Cynthia Tsay, made it through to the B final
with a time of 56.95.

Evening Finals

The Bulldogs opened the evening session with a bang, winning the
200-yard medley relay by .16 seconds. The team of Albrecht,
Kim, Forrester, and Dominski swam a time of 1:41.63, just edging
out Princeton. Yale extended their lead over Harvard to 17
points with the victory and closed to within 29 points of
Princeton.

"Tsay has been swimming the 200-yard medley all year, but I
needed her to swim the 800-yard freestyle relay today," said
Keefe. "We put in Molly and had Emily swim the last
leg. It worked well."

The 1000-yard freestyle was swum without preliminaries due to
its length and freshman Joan Weaver swam a great race for the
Bulldogs, taking sixth. Her time of 10:12.78 was 4.39 seconds
faster than her season best.

"Joan swam a tough double today," said Keefe. "We had her
in the 100-yard freestyle and the 1000-yard freestyle. That
is a tough day. She also swam a leg of the 800-yard freestyle
relay. Abby Nunn also had another great day for someone with
broken ribs, scoring points in the 1000-yard free."

Nunn took 15th for Yale with a time of 10:25.08 and
Brown took 17th with a time of 10:30.41.

Yale only had one swimmer in the A final of the 400-yard
freestyle. Darwin took fourth with a time of 4:25.92,
improving over her preliminary time. Brown also swam the
event taking 21st in the C final. With so few
swimmers in the event Harvard leapfrogged over Yale to take a 63
point lead.

Forrester continued her dominance in the 100-yard butterfly,
winning her second event of the championships. Her time was a
little slower than the preliminaries at 53.03, but she had already
broken Jill Sterkel's 29 year-old pool record in the morning.
She also broke the meet and Ivy League records. Two other
Yale swimmers placed in the A final. Hyde and Tung took sixth
and seventh place, respectively. Hyde had a time of 55.74,
while Tung clocked in at 55.96. Clifford swam in the
consolation final taking 16th overall with a time of
57.68. With Yale's dominating performance in the event they
inched closer to Harvard and Princeton who were just separated by
four points at this stage of the meet.

"The 100-yard butterfly was a big event for us," said
Keefe. "Anytime you can score three swimmers in an A final,
it is huge."

The 200-yard freestyle was another big event for the
Bulldogs. Weaver, swimming in her second event of the day,
took third with a time of 1:49.86. Lucos was just behind her
in fourth with a time for 1:50.82. Grigereit also swam in the
event for Yale. She took 15th with a time of
1:53.31.

Kim won her first event of the championships and broke the meet,
pool, and Ivy League record in the process. The pool record
was set by Tracy Caulkins of Nashville in 1981. Kim's time was
1:00.66 and just .67 seconds away from an NCAA A cut. Almost
as impressive was Liao who took fourth in the event with a time of
1:03.45, proving that although Kim is graduating, the breaststroke
events are being left in good hands. With Kim and Liao coming
through for Yale, the Bulldogs closed within 15 points of Harvard
and 66 points of Princeton.

In the 100-yard backstroke, Dominski came up with a huge finish
for Yale, taking second with a time of 54.80. She dropped
over a second off her preliminary time. Albrecht took sixth
for Yale with a time of 56.38. In the B final, Tsay took the
top spot for a ninth place finish overall. Her time was
56.51. Yale overtook Harvard after the 100-yard backstroke
and held a 13 point lead.

The Bulldogs got their third victory of the day from sophomore
Rachel Rosenberg who won the three-meter diving with a staggering
score of 291.60. Freshman Paige Meneses took seventh with a
score of 266.60. Sophomore Lisa Andrekovich took
15th in the B final with a score of 206.75.

In the 800-yard freestyle Yale took third with a score of
7:24.67. The team of Tsay, Lucos, Albrecht and Weaver fought
throughout the race, but by the time Weaver entered the pool to
close out the race, they were five yards behind Harvard and five
yards ahead of Penn, so all she could do was hold on.

At the end of the day Princeton led with a score of 982.
Harvard reclaimed second with a score of 944 and Yale was in third
at 916.

"Anything can happen tomorrow," said Keefe. "We will try
and do the best we possibly can. We have a lot of good swims
in us tomorrow and a lot of events that favor us."